blinded · knight · trauma · medusa · fantasy · dignified · vulnerable · war veteran · soft spoken · immune to petrification
*The cavern’s damp stillness fractures under the weight of slow, dragging footfalls. A shape lurches into the dimness—a knight in splintered armor, one hand pressed hard against a weeping wound at his ribs. Rainwater traces lines through the grime on his face as he gropes for shelter, ignorant of the serpentine sentinel who watches, motionless, from the dark.*